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i am at my grandfathers computer and he wants to know why the outlook express doesnt bring up mail from hotmail. it directed me to a site saying that i needed to get the MSN ISP service in order for outlook express to open hotmail, is there anyway around?

hes running Win98se
with outlook express 6

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook

"After you configure Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express to access your MSN (The Microsoft Network) Hotmail account, you receive the following error message when you try to download your Hotmail folders and when you try to send and receive e-mail messages:If you click Details, the following text appears in the error details:HTTPMAIL: 10:09:18 [rx]

HTTP/1.1 402 Access to Hotmail via Outlook & Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://upgrade.msn.comIf you are running Outlook Express on a Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)-based computer, you receive the following error message:Could not connect to Hotmail as username@hotmail.com.

Hotmail no longer allows email access via Outlook Express for free Hotmail/MSN accounts. Back to the top

CAUSEThis behavior occurs if the following conditions are true: • You configured Outlook Express to access a free Hotmail account. • Your Hotmail account has never been accessed by Microsoft Outlook or by Outlook Express. MSN Hotmail no longer supports Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) for free user accounts. Outlook Express uses the DAV interface to connect to Hotmail. Only paid Hotmail accounts will work correctly with Outlook Express. If you configured Outlook Express or Outlook to access your Hotmail account before DAV support was ended, you may still be able to use Outlook Express to open a free Hotmail account. However, eventually Hotmail will no longer support DAV for all free Hotmail accounts. Back to the top

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook

You can always get your grandfather a Gmail account, which is larger than hotmail, is free, and works with Outlook Express as well as Thunderbird.
I am sure if you walked him through the screens, he would have not problem using it.
Regards,
John

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